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Feb 21, 2002

"The world I share with you is to enable the weak and powerless to be strong, to enable the strong to be just, and to enable the just to be compassionate." --Terry Waite

In U.S., volunteers in formal organizations averaged just over 24 hours per month of donated time. This totaled an estimated 83.9 million adults giving approximately 15.5 billion hours in 2000, the equivalent of over 9 million full-time employees at a value of $239 billion.